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Corvus corax MAG
May 14, 2019
Bitterness is the thing with feathers; with a pointed beak that curves toward cruelty; with claws that grasp witless mice unwitting from the ground.
It is a hungry raven, using his beak to peck at his fellows, desperate for anything that will drown out the hunger pangs in his chest;
It alights on the rotting bones of prey long picked of anything sapid, and screeches his starvation to an apathetic desert,
Bitterness is leather-skin clinging too tight to bone, resentment making the brittle feathers gleam, ire in every squawk.
© Jacqueline T., Flower Mound, TX
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